Here we go, the start of a big international political war, the concern is where will it lead. If Bush starts throwing his toys out of his pram again like he did with Iraq we could be looking at further military action: VIENNA (AFP) – The UN nuclear watchdog opened the way for Security Council […]

So I am going through the Vanity Fair (pdf file) article on Abramoff and all I can say is WOW. It really shows us more into the connections this slime has. Here are some interesting excerpts from it: …the head of the Republican National Committee, Ken Mehlman, said in an interview, “Abramoff is someone who […]

Markos has been busy and he has the list and it is growing. Burns, McCain – the list keeps growing.

Recruitment for our armed forces are at a low. So what can be done about it? How about more recruitment scandals. Reuters has a bad one for us: Two women who said two U.S. Marine Corps recruiters forced them to have sex after they expressed interest in joining the force sued over the incidents on […]

Homeland Security and FEMA’s failures in Katrina are now getting another round of attention from the President. Actually he is using the failures to support his long time plan of getting “faith based” and “community initiative” programs to take a larger roll in disaster relief. He did this by executive order today: By the authority […]

You guys better get ready for it..lol PARIS (AFP) – Australia, Canada and the United States stand a “very high” risk of seeing the current H5N1 bird flu pandemic spread to their shores, the Paris-based World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) warned. “The probability of this strain appearing in Australia is very high. The possibility […]

First Reuters gives us this: Gunmen wearing the uniform of Iraqi police commandos seized dozens of employees from the offices of a security company in eastern Baghdad on Wednesday, police sources said. Two sources said about 50 people were taken. They said that the gunmen, who arrived in at least 10 vehicles, broke into the […]

Now this is a suprise…. better watch your back choir boys: The Roman Catholic Church in Ireland has revealed 102 priests working in Dublin are suspected of abusing children since 1940. At least 350 children are believed to have been sexually or physically assaulted over the past 66 years. The Irish government is expected to […]

 So the police over here in the UK seem to be doing their job well:  Two teenage students have been charged in connection with an investigation into suspected terrorist activity overseas, police said. The 18-year-olds have been charged under section 58 of the Terrorism Act and will appear in court on Thursday, Scotland Yard said. […]

Remember how the right got all up in arms when Harry Reid proclaimed “we killed the Patriot Act” a couple months back? Well the L.A. Times has a headline that mimics that line but on the other side of the aisle. The headline reads “Republicans Kill Request for Spy Program Inquiry”. Republican members of the […]